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[–] CADmonkey 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The lasers I ran could do that but we typically cut steel and aluminum with them. They had a separate chiller that had to vent outdoors, along with forced ventilation systems to keep fumes and fine metal dust from building up.

I'm not as familiar with cutting plywood, unfortunately. But I feel like 18mm material woukd need at least 1,000 watts.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Cool!

... Speaking of, what's the cooling like on a 1kW laser?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You two are fun. U sense there's a drinking game just around the corner

With a slight possibility of blindness

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I wish to make an insight check

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I feel like the guys that run our plasma may not have the best ventilation.